Senior Staff Software Engineer
Job Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will take a leading role in developing and improving enterprise-scale applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, solve complex technical challenges, mentor junior engineers, and drive the adoption of new technologies and best practices to ensure our applications are scalable, fast, and reliable.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively identify new opportunities and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects.
- Collaborate with technological experts across other teams to drive cross-team collaboration.
- Take a leading role in features or refactors within the specific domain.
- Solve challenging and complex issues or bugs in your domain of expertise.
- Review implementations related to your domain of expertise.
- Teach, guide, and mentor junior team members in their assigned tasks and technical skill development.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Code, test, debug, and implement solutions into production.
- Develop and review unit test cases to ensure comprehensive unit testing.
- Diagnose and fix product issues found internally or in the field.
- Interface with Support to handle customer escalation issues.
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
- 7-10 years of experience in enterprise-scale application development and hands-on software development, with recent experience in a cloud/SaaS environment.
- 7+ years of experience and expertise in Python.
- 2+ years of experience with React or Angular, using Typescript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Expertise and hands-on experience with web services (e.g., REST, SOAP).
- Experience with a major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Proficient understanding of SQL and relational databases.
- Familiarity with the general software development release lifecycle, source code management, and defect management methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, oral, and written communication skills.
- Experience leveraging AI/LLM-based tools and frameworks to improve engineering productivity, automation, and developer workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools, prompt engineering, or integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to and learn new programming languages as needed.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.